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Vera Pospelova is a researcher affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Pospelova has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine Micropaleontology (8 publications)
  • Journal of Phycology (3 publications)
  • Phycologia (2 publications)
  • Cretaceous Research (2 publications)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin (2 publications)

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Kenneth Neil Mertens (21 collaborations)
  • Haifeng Gu (10 collaborations)
  • Gwenaël Bilien (6 collaborations)
  • Sandy McLachlan (6 collaborations)
  • Pjotr Meyvisch (6 collaborations)

The following are selected recent publications by Vera Pospelova, illustrating the scope and focus of their research:

  • Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Cyst-theca relationships of Spiniferites bentorii, S. hyperacanthus, S. ramosus, S. scabratus and molecular phylogenetics of Spiniferites and Tectatodinium (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae), 2021, Phycologia
  • Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with Consideration of their Life-history, 2020, Protist
  • Salinity indicators in sediment through the fluvial-to-marine transition (Fraser River, Canada), 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Unraveling the Gonyaulax baltica Species Complex: Cyst-theca Relationship of Impagidinium variaseptum, Spiniferites pseudodelicatus sp. nov. and S. ristingensis (Gonyaulacaceae, Dinophyceae), With Descriptions of Gonyaulax bohaiensis sp. nov, G. amoyensis sp. nov. and G. portimonensis sp. nov., 2022, Journal of Phycology

Best Publications

  • Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 data points

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Kara Bogus

  • Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea‐surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas: the new ‘n = 677’ data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction

    Anne de Vernal;Maryse Henry;Jens Matthiessen;Peta J. Mudie

  • Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from the northeastern Pacific Ocean (43-25°N) in relation to sea-surface temperature, salinity, productivity and coastal upwelling

    Vera Pospelova;Anne de Vernal;Thomas F. Pedersen

  • A Determination Key for Modern Dinoflagellate Cysts

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Vera Pospelova

  • Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Koen Verhoeven;Thomas Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: Investigating its potential as salinity proxy

    Kenneth N. Mertens;Sofia Ribeiro;Sofia Ribeiro;Ilham Bouimetarhan;Hulya Caner

  • Dinoflagellate cyst records and human disturbance in two neighboring estuaries, New Bedford Harbor and Apponagansett Bay, Massachusetts (USA).

    Vera Pospelova;Gail L. Chmura;Warren S. Boothman;James S. Latimer

  • Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of water quality and productivity in British Columbia estuarine environments

    Taoufik Radi;Vera Pospelova;Anne de Vernal;J. Vaughn Barrie

  • Spatial distribution of modern dinoflagellate cysts in polluted estuarine sediments from Buzzards Bay (Massachusetts, USA) embayments

    Vera Pospelova;Vera Pospelova;Gail L. Chmura;Warren S. Boothman;James S. Latimer

  • Environmental factors influencing the spatial distribution of dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in shallow lagoons of southern New England (USA)

    Vera Pospelova;Gail L. Chmura;Henry A. Walker

  • Quantitative estimation of Holocene surface salinity variation in the Black Sea using dinoflagellate cyst process length

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Lee R. Bradley;Yoshihito Takano;Petra J. Mudie;Petra J. Mudie

  • Distribution of common modern dinoflagellate cyst taxa in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere in relation to environmental parameters: The new n=1968 database

    Anne de Vernal;Taoufik Radi;Sebastien Zaragosi;Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove

  • Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production, composition and flux from 1996 to 1998 in the central Strait of Georgia (BC, Canada): A sediment trap study

    Vera Pospelova;Svetlana Esenkulova;Sophia C. Johannessen;Mary C. O'Brien

  • High-resolution sediment trap study of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production and biogenic silica flux in Saanich Inlet (BC, Canada)

    Andrea M. Price;Vera Pospelova

  • Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of climatic and oceanographic changes during the past 40 kyr in the Santa Barbara Basin, southern California

    Vera Pospelova;Thomas F. Pedersen;Anne de Vernal

  • Dinoflagellate cysts in recent estuarine sediments from aquaculture sites of southern South Korea

    Vera Pospelova;Sung Jae Kim

  • Geographic distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J M Versteegh;Kara A Bogus

  • Operational taxonomy and (paleo-)autecology of round, brown, spiny dinoflagellate cysts from the Quaternary of high northern latitudes

    Taoufik Radi;Taoufik Radi;Sophie Bonnet;Marc André Cormier;Anne de Vernal

  • ISLANDINIUM BREVISPINOSUM SP. NOV. (DINOFLAGELLATA), A NEW ORGANIC‐WALLED DINOFLAGELLATE CYST FROM MODERN ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS OF NEW ENGLAND (USA)1

    Vera Pospelova;Martin J. Head

  • Tracing the influence of sewage discharge on coastal bays of Southern Vancouver Island (BC, Canada) using sedimentary records of phytoplankton.

    Alanna Krepakevich;Vera Pospelova

  • From bi-polar to regional distribution of modern dinoflagellate cysts, an overview of their biogeography

    Fabienne Marret;Lee Bradley;Anne de Vernal;William Hardy

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne de Vernal
Anne de Vernal University of Quebec at Montreal
André Rochon
André Rochon Université du Québec à Rimouski
Stephen Louwye
Stephen Louwye Ghent University
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Martin J. Head
Martin J. Head Brock University
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Stijn De Schepper
Stijn De Schepper NORCE Research
Karin A F Zonneveld
Karin A F Zonneveld University of Bremen
Jean-Louis Turon
Jean-Louis Turon University of Bordeaux

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